lineation's Usage Examples:

24), still adheres to the erroneous Ptolemaic delineation of southern Asia, and the same error is perpetuated by Henricus Marvellus Germanus on a rough map showing the Portuguese discoveries up to 1489.

Delineations such as these do not, however, satisfy scientific requirements.

Nilus, the disciple and defender of Chrysostom, permitted the symbol of the cross in churches and also pictorial delineations of Old and New Testament history, but deprecated other symbols, pictures of martyrs, and most of all the representation of Christ.

Even the comedies of the best authors are too observant of Latin precedents, although some pieces of Machiavelli, Ariosto, Aretino, Cecchi and Gelli are admirable for vivid delineation of contemporary manners.

The real advantage of this lens is that each area blends seamlessly into the other, and even better, does so without any of the typical delineations so common with eye glasses of the past.

Tradition credits him with an especial genius for the delineation of animals and landscape, and commemorates his skill by a curious anecdote of a painted horse which left its frame to ravage the fields, and was reduced to pictorial stability only by the sacrifice of its eyes.

His delineation of Abyssinia, though unduly spread over a wide area, is indeed wonderfully correct.

There are many kinds of delineation charts you can use.

Accordingly in all the remains of the Christian art of the Hauran one seeks in vain for any delineation of human face or figure.

The earliest delineation of the description has already been referred to as the AngloSaxon map of the world.

It is discursive and badly arranged, but it is marked by a power of style, a vigour of narrative, and a skill in delineation of character which give life to the most unattractive period of German history; notwithstanding the extreme spirit of partisanship and some faults of taste, it will remain a remarkable monument of literary ability.

In the delineation of character by graphically significant speech and action, introduced at unexpected turns, left with happy audacity to point their own meaning, and pointing it with a force that the dullest cannot but understand, he takes rank with the very greatest masters.

Synonyms:

marking,

Antonyms:

stand still, free,